Why I love The Book Thief

Susan Lattwein

I first saw Markus Zusak when he still had pimples, giving an author talk at a Sydney library. Way before he’d written The Book Thief.

Having read The Underdog, I knew Markus had a way with words. But The Book Thief is unique and will surely acquire the status of a classic. I knew it was a specially crafted tale when I first read it in 2005, and am so glad it’s finally going to be released as a motion picture.

Why is The Book Thief special, besides making me cry?

It’s not just the story, but how it’s written. I could tell you The Book Thief is narrated by death (yes, death), set in Nazi Germany, and is the story of a young girl who steals books and lives with her foster parents who protect a young Jewish man at their peril. You would correctly assume the…

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Same-sex couple says priest denied them communion due to relationship

Blood of Pope John Paul II stolen from Italian church

A Little Girl’s ‘..Voluptuous Breasts..’ to Blame for 6 Muslims Gang-Raping Her in West Bengal India

The ultimate going over the edge of madness to the false idea that feminists speak of about how some idiots really think how a woman dresses or what she looks like might mean she deserved to be raped. This article really does a great job of showing what it looks like when there are men stupid and evil enough to believe those pernicious myths about rape. “Liked” and “Reblogged!”
Feminists should be more vocal about how badly Muslim countries treat women. I might write a whole blog on that sometime.

RMC Responds: What Roe Really Means and Why it Matters

A conservative defense of why women should have the right to bodily autonomy and why abortion should be legal.

The Republican Majority for Choice Blog

 
This week marks the 41st anniversary of Roe v. Wade, unquestionably one of the most groundbreaking Supreme Court decisions in American history.  In honor of the 1973 decision, we want to take this opportunity to focus on what Roe really means for Americans and why choice matters so much. 

 As representatives from both sides of the abortion debate speak out about Roe and imposing new restrictions in reproductive health rights, you may be asking yourself this question: why should I care?  One Facebook commenter this week even said, “I can’t believe that this is still an issue, 40 years after Roe v Wade” highlighting how contested this right still is as battles for choice and personal liberty continue to rage across the country.
  

We, like millions of other Republicans, believe in the GOP core values safeguarding the constitutional protections of privacy and the separation of Church and State…

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MUSLIM VIOLENCE SURGES IN CHRISTIAN-MAJORITY COUNTRY

Top 10 Of The World’s Cheapest Patrol [INFOGRAPHIC] #cheapest #patrol

I want to ride my motorcycle through Venezuela!

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“The Butler” – film review

brainsnorts inc.

Before seeing Lee Daniels’ The Butler, I had several reasons to dislike it.  First, I don’t like anyone’s name before the title.  I would not like Martin Scorcese’s Goodfellas or Steven Spielberg’s Raiders of the Lost Ark, thus I would not like anyone’s anything.  Second, any film with Oprah Winfrey usually belongs on basic cable.  Speaking of Oprah, the third reason is her sour grapes when the film was ignored in the Oscar nominations.  I’ll take fermented grapes but not sour.  Honestly, the only reason I watched The Butler was that I had the choice between that and a second helping of Silver Linings Playbook.  I chose wisely, and Oprah was right.

Having already mentioned Gump, I may as well get the obvious out of the way.  If someone tells you that The Butler, spanning from 1926 to 2008, is the African-American and more…

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Fundraiser Held For Baseball-Loving 10-Year-Old Girl Battling Cancer

If you know me IRL in SoCal, then you live near her, too. I hope she gets the help she needs.

How Bar Brawls Begin

The Dish

Burt Likko, a lawyer who did work for an insurance company “which wrote liability policies to a whole bunch of seedy bars,” relays what he learned about the topic:

You might think that a bar fight is most commonly started between two guys fighting over a woman. That’s not so, at least not in my experience. Ejection seems to be a more precipitating event. More than half the bar fights I had to sort out started when a too-drunk patron was asked to leave and refused to do so. When the bar back or the bouncer attempts to escort the drunk out of the building, the drunk refuses to cooperate, and if the escorting turns in to physical handling, the drunk will wrestle away and attempt to run back in the bar. It is during this struggle that harmful physical contact between the drunk and someone else is initiated. By…

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